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Daspletoraptor
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I make art sometimes
Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/daspletoraptor
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Figured I'd actually introduce my page with a pinned post. I'm Daspletoraptor. Some of you may know me from twitter. Here's some of my paleoart. I mostly do big ugly dinos, but expect more weird fish from me in the future. #paleoart #sciart
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January 25, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Tyrannosaurus family
January 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
January 28, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Its a doodle kinda day today
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Some other thing
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I think I’ll call this commission “Turla Munchersss”!

Millions of years ago during the Miocene, somewhere off the Pacific coast of SA, a gigantic Purussaurus sp. cautiously passes by a titanic female Otodus megalodon, each with freshly caught sea turtles.

#paleoart
January 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Just a little guy
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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January 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Moa
January 24, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Nanotyrannus lethaeus tries a Triceratops prorsus. This one took a while.

#paleoart #dinosaur #art #sciart
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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Ankylosaurus magniventris skull diagram.

#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
January 24, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Important new publication statistically examining elasmobranch diversity since beginning of the Cretaceous. www.cell.com/current-biol...
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @elasmobranch.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Entangled
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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[GORE WARNING]
Here we see an Allosaurus meeting a rather unfortunate fate at the hands (or tails?) of a Stegosaur.

Artwork for @drew_barsness
#dinosaurs #paleoart #art #NoAI #digitalart #illustration #conceptart
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Uintatherium WIP
January 18, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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a REALLY cool paper was just posted that describes a new lagertätte from La Rioja Provence, Argentina: A extremophile microorganism site with 3d arthropod bits and plants in a Geothermal field. This site also produces large vertebrate material and sauropod nests. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
January 17, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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Memory versus Reference Diplodocus paleoart sketches. #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Sauropod #Diplodocus #MemoryDrawing
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Duck-billed dinosaur – ready to hatch
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Had the pleasure of making a sculpture of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex for SHOWANNA Studio. 🦖
Pretty pleased with how this one turned out, I got to nerd out on all of her unique pathologies. The old girl lived a hard life!
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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#Xenovenator is one of the first named dinosaurs of the year! Assigned by Rivera-Sylva et al (2026) to the troodontid lineage, it has oddly thickened frontals - creating a bulbous/domed forehead. Could this be a combat or display adaptation? It's remains from Coahuila, #Mexico date back ~73m years.
January 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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So how does Xenovenator compare with Yaverlandia @tetzoo.bsky.social ? No mention of it? @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
New dinosaur Xenovenator espinosai, apparently a dome-headed troodontid: www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18... 🪶🧪 (📷Rivera-Sylva et al.)
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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A portrait sketch of Cryolophosaurus elliotti, a remarkable theropod from the Early Jurassic of Antarctica. This dinosaur is known for its tuft-shaped crest, positioned above the eyes. It was given informal name "Elvisaurus" due this feature.

#paleoart #dinosaur #jurassic
January 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM